What the night sky looks like over Painesville, OH

Satellite radiance puts Painesville in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 73.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Painesville

10 miles from Painesville, straight-line, sits Eastlake, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Painesville's own suburban band.

Eastlake, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Painesville against the rest of the dataset

Painesville, OH has a population of about 20,660, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Painesville ranks 2,336 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.